Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century

Contents

Contents Preface ix Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank Introduction. Hail to the Salesman in Chief: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Presidency 1 Andrew L. Johns 1.Imperial Tutor: William McKinley, the War of 1898, and the New Empire, 1898–1902 18 George C. Herring 2. War and the Health of the State: The U.S. Government and the Communications Revolution during World War I 48 Emily S. Rosenberg 3. Selling Different Kinds of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Public Opinion during World War II 67 Mark A. Stoler 4. Cementing and Dissolving Consensus: Presidential Rhetoric during the Cold War, 1947–1969 93 Robert D. Schulzinger 5. Hard Sell: The Korean War 113 Marilyn B. Young 6. Eisenhower’s Dilemma: Talking Peace and Waging Cold War 140 Kenneth Osgood 7. “We Need to Get a Better Story to the American People”: LBJ, the Progress Campaign, and the Vietnam War on Television 170 Chester Pach 8. Selling Star Wars: Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative 196 Paul S. Boyer 9. The Ministry of Fear: Selling the Gulf Wars 224 Lloyd Gardner 10. Conclusion. War, Democracy, and the State 250 Robert J. McMahon Afterword. Worm’s-Eye View 261 David Halberstam List of Contributors 275 ...